Additional techniques for finishing up your web site
- Animated GIFs created in Photoshop
- Contact form using Google Forms, like the example at the bottom of this page
- Dreamweaver Template and Library files
- Embedded video: using YouTube's instructions
- Image maps
- Mouseover images
- Slide shows
- from Adobe Bridge: instructions from Adobe
- from Adobe Dreamweaver plug-in: instructions from Adobe's Layers magazine
- from Adobe Photoshop: only available through a special installation of Web Photo Gallery, and then you can do this
- from jQuery Lightbox plug-in: from Leandro Vieira Pinho's web site
- from a slideshow application, such as Visual SlideShow (free and paid versions)
- Spry elements
- Navigation menus: instructions from Adobe
- Collapsible panels: instructions from Adobe
Remember, placeholders for future video projects are fine --there will be a chance to update this web site after each of the next two projects. In addition, photo comps are fine, even with watermarks from iStockPhoto, etc. --although, of course, you would want to replace those with real content before using the site for an outside audience.
Pop-up windows can be scripted in a number of ways, including:
pop-up window without personal toolbar (directories)
pop-up window without program menu bar
pop-up window without location bar
pop-up window without status bar
